Functional profile of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) compared to patients with Alzheimer's disease and normal controls

Functional profile of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) compared to patients with Alzheimer's disease and normal controls

ABSTRACT There are few studies describing the functional changes in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and it is not clear which aspects of functionality are affected by the disease. Objective: The aim of the present investigation was to characterize the functional profile of patien...

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Main Authors: Thais Bento Lima-Silva, Valéria Santoro Bahia, Viviane Amaral Carvalho, Henrique Cerqueira Guimarães, Paulo Caramelli, Márcio Balthazar, Benito Damasceno, Cássio Machado de Campos Bottino, Sônia Maria Dozzi Brucki, Ricardo Nitrini, Mônica Sanches Yassuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
Subjects:
behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
functional status
dependence
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